British Establishment gathers for Pope

Left and right unites for speech that will test the Roman Catholic leadership

Here inside the great Westminster Hall where the Catholic martyr Thomas More was tried and executed, to the sound of Ticheli's Amazing Grace, the great and the good is slowly gathering for the Papal address on this unprecedented State visit.

With a paradoxically heavy presence, armed police are circling Parliament as Westminster readies itself for the supposed vicar to the Prince of Peace. Inside, Roman Catholic a...